Focus: Broadcasting

SES revealed a new Ku-band free-to-air solution on the SES-10 satellite located at 67 degrees West. TV viewers across Brazil can now receive some of the country’s most popular channels. TV Cultura, among other channels and content owners, have been testing SES’s newest Ku-band uplink. Broadcasters and radio operators will also be able to leverage the Ku-band...

MEASAT Satellite Systems revealed its agreement with Celebrities Management Private Limited (CMPL) to distribute the Travelxp 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) channel across the Asia Pacific. The international travel channel will join MEASAT’s Ultra High Definition (UHD) video neighborhood at 91.5 degrees East, where it will be distributed to television platforms and operators in more...

IP Infusion, a provider of network software for telecom and data communications services, revealed that SKY Brasil, a Direct to Home (DTH) digital satellite service operator in Brazil, has selected IP Infusion’s OcNOS network operating system in their 5G-ready fixed LTE services disaggregated mobile backhaul transport solutions, a first for Latin America. According to the...

AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV and Dish Network Corp., suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe such a deal could pass muster with U.S. regulators, according to people familiar with their thinking. It’s been 17 years since a proposed combination of the two satellite-TV services was...

Russia successfully launched the Proton M/Breeze M integrated launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on May 30 at 8:42 p.m. (Moscow time), and injected the Yamal-601 telecommunication satellite into orbit. The Yamal-601 project is part of the Targeted Federal Program for the Development of Television and Radio Broadcasting in the Russian Federation. According to the...

African Communications Satellite Company NigComSat has officially rolled out a new Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite TV platform in Nigeria called NextTV, which will be operated as a joint-venture with Nigus International and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC). The satellite TV service will carry 140 channels provided by a consortium of unnamed media companies. Nigus will be...

Consumers are streaming Over-the-Top (OTT) content everywhere — from cruise ships to bathroom stalls on airplanes. But the extent to which satellite will enable residents of remote or rural locations can watch high-definition “Game of Thrones” dragons flying across their smartphone screens depends on a number of factors, like cost and a compelling business case....

DISH Network will acquire EchoStar’s Broadcast Satellite Service (BSS) business. More specifically, Echostar will transfer certain operations and other assets that comprise the company’s Broadcast Satellite Service (BSS) business, including nine Direct Broadcast Satellites (DBS) and the certain key employees responsible for satellite operations, licensing for the 61.5-degree orbital slot, and select real estate properties to...

SES revealed that an 8K demo signal was broadcast directly to a flat screen TV with a built-in satellite receiver. The 8K content broadcast was done via ASTRA 28.2 degrees East orbital slot. Spin Digital provided the expertise to encode 8K signals, SES the bandwidth to broadcast the signal, and Samsung the 8K flat screen TV...

Kymeta formed a partnership with Turksat at SATELLITE 2019. The partnership will bring connectivity solutions to Turksat customers for voice, data, internet, TV, and radio broadcasting, and will expand land and sea connectivity to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. “Partnering with Türksat allows Kymeta to provide coverage through their satellite communications with our end-to-end solutions...